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ContentsINTELLIGENT DESIGN, INTERVIEW WITH BILL DEMBSKIThis interview, originally given back in 2012 and then revised in 2016. James Barham conducted the interview. The interview, updated again in August 2019 and May 2021. In 2000, William Dembski, founded the first intelligent design think tank at a research university, Baylor's Michael Polanyi Center. As a design theorist, he has lectured widely on intelligent design, appearing on numerous radio and television programs, including ABC's Nightline and Jon Stewart's The Daily Show.DEFENDING THE EMBATTLED CHRISTIAN HERITAGE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION, CAMPION COLLEGEby Paul MorrisseySHERIDAN COLLEGEby Augusto Zimmermann

Tony Thomas''s new essays pulverise "woke" causes including climate doomism; the Aboriginal industry; and the ABC''s bias.While society goes mad with political correctness, Tony gives sanity and laughter a chance. He probes the outer reaches of woke-ism for absurdities beyond satire.Who else but Tony would record that Melbourne University''s green brigade imported a guest expert on "tree humping"?Tony also focuses on great Aboriginal questions of the day, like "Who gets to be an Elder?" Can you be a younger Elder and why are 80% of Elders worried about other Elders'' bona fides? As for who gets to be an Aborigine, one of 85,000 recent "new identifiers" discovered her Aboriginality by talking to her chooks.Tony is not just a political tragic. In wide-ranging essays he writes about Australia''s greatest spy - a persuasive middle-aged housewife in Adelaide with baby-blue eyes. He writes how at 20 he was taught German by a literary scholar who then was sentenced to hang for murder. And he describes how 5000 Perth citizens armed with pistols, rifles and shotguns went on a man-hunt in a pine plantation in 1963 -- with police approval.Tony gives you a feast of far-fetched facts, and as always, it''s with a sly smile.I have known Tony for over 40 years. These essays reflect his meticulous research, attention to detail and, above all, his passionate condemnation of all the lies, hypocrisy, smugness and groupthink that demean our public policy debate.-- John Stone, Federal Treasury Secretary 1979-84, National Party Senator 1987-90:Some authors proffer mindfulness, a calming and sombre page or two from which to fall quietly into slumber. If you''re looking for such inert writing, drop this volume like a hot cake. For here the indefatigable Tony Thomas again introduces his readers to a wild, colourful, convulsive world of eccentrics, of argumentation, of strange and sometimes strikingly uncongenial places and cultures, as he persists in his restless everyman quest for answers to his endless questions.-- Rowan Callick OBE, China expert and an Australian Journalist of the YearThere is only one Tony Thomas, a fact for which peddlers of cant, snout-troughing catastropharians and the ABC - but I repeat myself - must daily rejoice.-- Roger Franklin, editor of Quadrant Online.

The perfect book for your child - (ages 4-9)Follow Bella''s adventures with her best mates Bo and Billy in outer space!On the moon, life''s a breeze: no parents or teachers telling them ''no, no, no, no''!But all is not as it seems. Pursued by intergalactic thieves, the ''rat pack'' embark upon a rollicking and dangerous space adventure!

The Our Father is the prayer that Jesus himself has given us. In this careful and profoundly reflected upon book, Fr Ken takes us phrase by phrase through the Lord''s Prayer. The text is meditative and filled with helpful stories that will appeal to today''s incredible thirst for God. It is a joy to recommend this new book from such an anointed Australian writer on the spiritual life.Archbishop Christopher Prowse, Archdiocese of Canberra and GoulburnThis is a most informative, instructive, and accessible book on the Our Father. Fr Ken has done a great service in exploring the richness of this evangelical prayer and presenting it in a practical way. This is a must-read book for anyone desiring to deepen their appreciation and understanding of the prayer that Jesus gave to us, his disciples. I have found it very helpful for my own spiritual reading and am certain that many others will also find it profitable.Fr Aloysius Rego OCD, Mt Carmel Retreat Centre, Varroville. NSW.In these pages, Fr Ken teaches us afresh what it is to listen to Jesus, to learn from him and to enter with him into the heart of God, becoming daughters and sons of the Father, sisters and brothers to each other.  Archbishop Mark Coleridge, Archdiocese of BrisbaneAbout the Author: Fr Ken Barker is the founder of the Missionaries of God''s Love (MGL), a new religious congregation in the Australian Church. He is involved in many works of evangelisation and renewal, and is author of popular books, including Becoming Fire, Young Men Rise Up, His Name is Mercy, Amazing Love, Alive in the Spirit, The Wonder of the Eucharist, The Way of Jesus, Fire to the Earth, Go Set the World on Fire, and Mary, Disciple and Mother.

For any Catholic living in Australia at the present moment the challenges to the faith are great indeed. The culture around us is changing rapidly, not only abandoning its Christian heritage but becoming increasingly hostile to the Church. Within the Church there is a serious struggle to know how to respond to these changes. Does the Church adapt itself to the culture? How can it preserve its true identity?The evident decline in religion and in numbers of Catholics attending Sunday Mass and living a sacramental life is another area of concern. Is this decline terminal? Experiences like the sexual abuse crisis have further eroded the confidence of many Catholics, and some have lost confidence in the leadership of bishops. Is it time to change the governance structures of the Church?As the Church prepares for a Plenary Council, these and many other issues challenge the Church here in Australia. Will the Council find the right way forward and plot a course which will ensure that the Church is able to effectively carry out the mission entrusted to it by the Lord?The response we make to the issues we face must be grounded in a deep spirit of faith. It must be faithful to the revelation of Sacred Scripture. It must be grounded in its living Tradition, and continuous with the body of Magisterium.The Plenary Council will shape the direction of the Church in Australia for decades to come.

During more than thirty years of teaching at the Gregorian University in Rome (1974-2006) and later, Gerald O'Collins, SJ, AC, often wrote to his family and friends. This volume contains over 150 of his letters. These letters blend public news of church and state with vivid details about foreign visitors and new, Italian friends. They enter into a struggle as professor and dean of theology to update the oldest Jesuit university, a West Point of the Catholic Church which continues to train future bishops, cardinals and popes. The letters also vividly describe what O'Collins did during summer vacations-on lecturing tours that took him to every continent.A leading modern theologian, Fr O'Collins has published 76 books that he has authored or co-authored, including seventeen with Oxford University Press and four with Connor Court: A Midlife Journey (2012), On the Left Bank of the Tiber (2013), From Rome to Royal Park (2015) and Portraits (2019). As well as receiving numerous honorary doctorates and other awards, in 2006 with Nicole Kidman he was created a Companion of the General Division of the Order of Australia, the highest civil honour granted through the Australian government.

Despite the 1948 UN Declaration that freedom of thought, conscience and belief is a universal human right, contemporary political elites have resurrected the old Marxist idea that religion is a crutch for the weak. Contemporary political correctness would outlaw religious free speech whenever it offends. This collection of five research essays by Honour students, staff and friends of the University of Notre Dame''s Sydney School of Law:- interrogates the philosophical idea of harm that underlies such offence,- tests whether religious free speech is entitled to the same protection as other speech,- notes the consequences of proscribing the free exercise of religion in totalitarian regimes,- identifies some of the ways in which new gender rights conflict with established freedoms, and- wonders why Singapore, the United States and Australia have all failed to implement the freedom of religion intended of religion in the 1948 UDHR and the 1966 ICCPR.The insights here are not all comfortable, but they confirm that human rights ideas do have consequences.

"Done well, migrant history offers a mirror to the host society, reflecting in another language, and from a fresh perspective, aspects of its national history that are perhaps less historiographically stable than most mainstream historians imagine. Dr Nick Anastastovski has produced a magnificent addition to the canon of Australian migrant history, valuable not only for Macedonians, but for everyone who cares to understand migration as a lived experience."-- Robert Pascoe, Dean Laureate and Professor of History, Victoria University, Melbourne  "Pechalba Down Under by Nick Anastasovski is an important work for Macedonians in Australia, anyone with roots from Macedonia and for those who are interested in understanding Macedonian migration. This work comprehensively introduces the reader to the Macedonians and should be read by everyone who has an interest in learning about their Macedonian heritage but also anyone interested in learning about the Macedonians."  -- Todor Petrov, President World Macedonian Congress

People keep secrets for all sorts of reasons. Planning a surprise trip, or a birthday party or a special gift can make life fun and interesting. Sadly, not all secrets bring joy. They can be destructive and life altering. It''s especially important for children to understand the difference between good and bad secrets. Good secrets bring happy surprises when they are told. Bad secrets try to cover up wrong and they should never be kept quiet. This book will start a conversation to help children know the difference.

Australian Biographical Monographs, No. 8This is a lively new account of John Grey Gorton and his legacy. Within the constraints of a short biography, Paul Williams has effectively challenged some of the most common previous assessments of Gorton''s political ideas and achievements.-- Professor Rodney Smith, Department of Government and International Relations, University of SydneyThis new monograph on Australian Prime Minister Sir John Gorton (1968-71) by Dr Paul Williams, Senior Lecturer in politics, journalism and public relations at Griffith University''s School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, is more than just a snapshot of one of Australia''s more interesting, and at times, most difficult to understand prime ministers. Rather, Dr Williams''s considerable additional research provides a better understanding of the political context of Gorton''s times. We come to appreciate the changing nature of Australian politics and society, including Labor''s resurgence and the fracturing of the Liberal Party''s dominance, and how each of these affected Gorton''s prime ministership and assessments of his performance. Dr Williams has published widely on voter behaviour and political leadership in Australian scholarly journals, and he is a frequent commentator on Australian federal and Queensland state politics in the news media.